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Catherine Hoggle indicted again for murder in her children’s 2014 disappearance

Charges were previously dropped in 2022 due to incompetence

Prosecutors say Hoggle confessed during a therapy session

Judge orders no bail, citing public safety and flight risk

ROCKVILLE — A Maryland woman with a long history of severe mental illness has been held without bail after she was recently rearrested and charged with murder in the 2014 disappearance of her two children — almost three years after an earlier case against her was dropped.

A judge dismissed the previous murder charges in 2022 because Catherine Hoggle had been repeatedly found incompetent to stand trial.

But that didn’t stop prosecutors from indicting Hoggle again after her recent release from a state-run psychiatri

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